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Jane Reaction

In the 30 years that I lived in Houston, these are exactly the responses I would expect from Cronies of Cornyn, the worst Chief Justice the Texas Supreme Court ever had, and that is in recognition of an already pretty low bar.

There were so damn many astronauts running around trying to get a business deal going, that you would just expect any deal to supposedly “have on board” one of the originals like a Wally Shirra.

While the astronauts were prima donas, the NASA employees themselves whom I personally knew, and one of which I dated, were essentially overpaid but ordinary civil servants.

Perhaps it was because the agency had so many accidents, the staff was quite defensive, and probably afraid for their continued funding. Except for a significant financial impact on the NASA/Clear Lake area, where to be sure it is critical, there was always more hyperbole about the agency than ‘feet on the ground’.

This unified stance by the Texas GOP is pure theater.

Hell, they are probably in on another privatization-with-public-money, this time putting vital communications and defense resources developed with taxpayer funds over fifty years, into the hands of private corporations enabling them to further profit.

Corporations now have the same sanctity, in the narrow holding of the Supreme Court, as a Republican stem cell.

Duane Graham

I wasn’t aware that Cornyn was on the Texas Supreme Court. That is an elected position, no? In your experience, how does the election of such judges work compared to appointments or to Missouri’s system? (If you have an opinion.)